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Ivan Kurilla, a professor at Wellesley College, stated that the draft of Russia’s revised constitution could backfire because it contains no means of protecting citizens from the state, and local committees’ decisions might later become censorship tools.

Professor emeritus Selwyn Cudjoe writes for the Trinidad Daily Express: “It may seem an exaggeration, but the Leader of Our Grief is the most obnoxious leader we have had in our 62 years of independent rule.”

Women’s books are in the spotlight at the 2024 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. The fair includes a range of talks on Saturday and Sunday; Ruth Rogers, curator of special collections at Wellesley College, will speak about what universities need to collect.

Environmental studies professor Jay Turner writes for The Conversation about America’s battery plant boom. The future of these job-generating gigafactories, many of them in Republican states, writes Turner, could be at risk if the next president tries to wipe out the programs that made them possible.

Given the prison system's racial disparities, Ismar Volić, chair of the math department at Wellesley College and director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, called the practice of prison gerrymandering "unnervingly reminiscent" of the three-fifths compromise, which allowed early states to count slaves as three-fifths of a person for census purposes.

The engine of American democracy is rusty, sputtering, and no longer able to take us where we want to go, writes Ismar Volić, a mathematician who directs the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College. It is time to design and build a new one.

Students collaborate with political science professors to survey the opinions of 18- to 35-year-old voters.

Wellesley College is once again honored by The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine as one of Massachusetts's leading companies and nonprofit organizations led by women.

Preserve or destroy? Korea’s last venereal disease detention center sparks debate. Katharine Moon, a professor emerita of Asian studies and political science at Wellesley College, noted that the debate represents a shift in public attitudes toward such sites, which some communities previously sought to dismantle to avoid perceived stigma. According to Moon, activists’ preservation campaign is more about “national history writing [and] keeping alive more permanently the ugly parts of history that people shunned for decades.”